The Christine Tarantino Collection, newest Christine Tarantino art blog started on January 1, 2012. Showcasing selected works from my 20 year collection of works on paper from artists around the globe.http://christinetarantinocollection.blogspot.com/

27.9.11

Postcards from Distant Lands by Zeren Earls

Newly published book with a chapter on Bhutan, Kingdom of Happiness. Included in the chapter is the author Zeren Earls's reflections on the art exhibit curated by Rafique Sulayman in Bangladesh. My word-collage was included in this show last February in Thimpu, BHUTAN.

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Christine A. Tarantino is an American artist (b. 1948, New York City) who specializes in visual poetry and artist books. She has also been known as Words of Light, CHRISTAR and 'the homeless poet'.

As soon as I make a mark on my paper, that mark is dead. It no longer flows, it stops. I consider it an artistically ethical challenge then. Do I want the marks I make to really be there? And should all marks of art be beautiful? I say yes, to try is to aspire.

A picture can be skillfully painted but totally devoid of art. Art then is the 'power to percieve the beautiful and of expressing it in artistic form'. This is the true definition of fine art. Always has been, always will be.